Dr. Mark Lindsay was 5 years old when he first learned that tree trunks were brown. "Up until that point, I believed leaves and trunks were all green. Just lighter and darker shades," Mark said. Mark ...
A brouhaha broke out recently when it was revealed that TED treated a talk on color blindness by Coleman Hughes (who is black, if that matters), with surprising levels of hostility. Mr. Hughes and TED ...
Originally setting out to design safety glasses for use during laser surgeries, materials scientist Don McPherson instead designed a lens that enables color-blind wearers to see the full light ...
Ray St. Clair first learned he saw things differently when he was about nine years old and walking down Congress Street in downtown Tucson with his mother. "Look at the gray car," he said to her.
JOHNSON CITY, Tenn. & BERKELEY, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--East Tennessee State University (ETSU) announced that it purchased and donated 36 pairs of special EnChroma glasses for red-green color ...
– Nearly Half Say Condition Affects Their Desire to Visit Art and Other Museums, 77% Are Disappointed in Visits to Colorful Attractions, 84% Want More “Color Accessibility” – BERKELEY, Calif. & DENVER ...
This summer, the Supreme Court continued one of its longest-standing legacies: upholding White Supremacy. In 1857, Dred Scott v. Sandford ruled that enslaved peoples were not American citizens and ...
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Can Women Be Color Blind?

Women can be colorblind, but it’s much less common than in men. Red-green color blindness, the most common type, is inherited through the X chromosome. Since males have only one X, they need just one ...
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the publication of Eduardo Bonilla-Silva’s Racism without Racists: Color-Blind Racism and the Persistence of Racial Inequality in America. Now in its sixth ...